![]() This is the America Greg knows, one he feels closer to than to his youthful idealism, closer even than to his younger second wife. Greg takes us on a tour of highway and roadside, of Taco Bell, KFC, gas-station Slurpees, sticky strip-club floors, pooling sweat, candy wrappers and crumpled panes of cellophane and wrinkled plastic bags tumbling along the interstate. Almost on a whim, Greg embarks on a road trip to central Florida-a noble search for his son, or so he tells himself. Greg is bored, demoralized, obese, and as dubious of GJ’s desire to be found as he is of his own motivation to go looking. ![]() ![]() Eat Only When You're Hungry (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)Ī father searches for his addict son while grappling with his own choices as a parent (and as a user of sorts)Īchingly funny and full of feeling, Eat Only When You’re Hungry follows fifty-eight-year-old Greg as he searches for his son, GJ, an addict who has been missing for three weeks.
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